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18 Shocking True Crime Stories of the World's Worst Serial Killers. Included in this volume;John Eric Armstrong: A psychopathic sailor who traveled the world with the US Navy, racking up kills in every port he visited, from Hawaii to Hong Kong.George Joseph Smith: This truly heartless killer who preyed on lonely spinsters, killing them by an ingeniously original method.Faryion Wardrip: He was considered a pillar of the community in Wichita Falls,...
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Sinister Script - How Handwriting Exposes Evil is a 127 page eBook (27,849) written by Charles T. Richardson, a certified handwriting analyst with nearly 50 years of experience in graphology. The book contains four chapters and footnotes, detailed endnotes, a glossary of handwriting analysis terms, an extensive bibliography and a thorough index. Many samples of handwriting, along with photos, are used to explain the text. The first two chapters introduce...
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As idyllic as eastern Pennsylvania's Lehigh Valley may be, there's an unexpected dark side. Serial killers, mass murderers, violent gangs and outright hit men have all operated here, along with high-profile family killers. Even before these incidents, there were several Indian massacres and some homicides that made forensic history. In these pages Katherine, in collaboration with Northampton County coroner Zachary Lysek, looks at historical and contemporary...
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From award-winning journalists John Quiñones and María Elena Salinas comes One Year in Uvalde, a narrative that builds on year-long ABC News reporting from Uvalde, Texas, chronicling how the community is forging on through grief with hope and activism in the shadow of tragedy.
Uvalde: 365 was a continuing ABC News series led by the network's Investigative Unit. As part of the initiative, ABC opened a local satellite news bureau in Uvalde, Texas,...
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"A mysterious high-stakes game proves life-threatening in this twisty thriller from the New York Times bestselling author of The Overnight Guest The Best Friend. The Confidant. The Senator. The Boyfriend. The Executive. Five contestants have been chosen to compete for ten million dollars on the game show One Lucky Winner. The catch? None of them knows what (or who) to expect, and it will be live streamed all over the world. Completely secluded in...
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Mass murders. Increased suicides. Tattered lives. Armed authorities pitted against unarmed Black men. Our means of preventing gun violence is fatally flawed. Robert Fraga covers the history, statistics and more, answering the question: what can be done?Fraga "... traces America's history ... from the days of Bleeding Kansas to the long tradition of political assassination, exploring the ways that American gun culture has become more radical over time....
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The cold case that put Speedway, Indiana, on the map. "What may be the definitive public accounting of the murder mystery that still resonates today." -Fox59
The evening of November 17, 1978, should have been like any other for the four young crewmembers closing the Burger Chef at 5725 Crawfordsville Road in Speedway, Indiana. After serving customers and locking the doors for the night, the kids began their regular cleanup to ready the restaurant...
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True Crime: Behind the Scenes" takes you on an immersive journey into the heart of criminal investigations, providing a gripping exploration of the fascinating world of crime-solving. Uncover the intricacies of detective work, forensic science, and the relentless pursuit of justice that unfolds behind the scenes of true crime stories.This book peels back the layers of criminal behavior, offering a glimpse into the meticulous processes of crime scene...
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True stories of crime in Miami by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Corpse Had a Familiar Face. Set against the neon backdrop of the South Florida city where Miami Herald reporter Edna Buchanan covered the police beat for nearly two decades, this memoir collects true tales of both heroes and villains-from the heartbreaking to the heartwarming to the outright hilarious.
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Judy Buenoano loved men. But she loved killing them more. In 1971, she murdered her husband James and nine years later she would kill her own son, Michael. In 1983, she would attempt but fail to kill her boyfriend, John Gentry. She is also believed to have been responsible for the death of Bobby Joe Morris (another boyfriend) in 1978. She was never convicted of the Morris crime, however, as by the time the authorities had connected the dots she was...
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Has The Claremont Killer Been Brought To Justice? Sometime in 2020, when the warm Australian winter is turning to searing summer, Bradley Robert Edwards will discover whether or not he has been found guilty of the homicide of two, perhaps even three, of the Claremont murder victims. These were the young women who, in a spate of assaults in the mid 1990s, lost their lives in sexually motivated attacks. The quietly spoken, outwardly calm middle aged...
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Nicole Vonlee Titlow is a middle aged woman who is currently serving out a 20-40 year prison sentence in the G. Robert Cotton Correctional Facility for the second degree murder of her uncle, Don Rogers. At first glance, this case seems to be one of commonplace gold digging and an attempt to make some quick cash, but upon further reading, it quickly devolves into betrayal, back-handedness, ineffective counsel, and further tragedy. This otherwise average...
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While he was still in his school uniform, Peter Dupas walked over to his neighbor's house and knocked. The 27-year-old mother was breastfeeding her five-week-old baby when she heard the knock. She answered the door, and was surprised to see the young boy at her door. She welcomed him into the house and asked why he had come over. He asked to borrow a sharp knife. He was supposed to be peeling potatoes, and they did not have a knife that was sharp...
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In December 1985, a narcotics detective was shot and killed in the driveway of his farm in Pueblo, Colorado, where he lived with his five children and his wife, Donna Yaklich. Initially, authorities suspected Dennis' death was linked to his work in law enforcement, but a tip led them to two teenage shooters – and eventually, back to Dennis' wife, Donna. However, attorneys for Donna Yaklich argued that Dennis had been beating his wife. The murder,...
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"Being in the same room with him and looking at him, I realized that one day I would be in the same position as he, facing death. Before it happens I mean to do the things I want to do. I will not end up saying, "I wish I had". When Sal Mineo said those words about his dying father, nobody could have predicted that just four short years later, he would, himself, be facing death.
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An anthology of True Crime committed by women so vile that you'll shake your head in wonder...and disgust at their deeds. STACEY SCHOECK Richard and Stacy Schoeck had a perfect marriage, or at least it looked ideal for their friends and family. Even though they have been together for a long time, they seemed to have eyes only for each other. Richard was Stacy's fifth husband and everyone was certain that he was indeed the love of her life. The couple...
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Manchester has one of the darkest histories in Britain. From the Screaming Skull of Wardley Hall to an epidemic of deadly factory fires in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, you will find all manner of horrible events inside this book. With coffins washed from their graves and swept away into the city after the River Medlock burst its banks, and the streets of Salford, Gorton and Openshaw overrun by gangs in the latter quarter of the nineteenth...
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In this thrilling true crime book, bestselling and award-winning author John Ferak explores the murder, investigation, trial, conviction and eventual exoneration-the largest such ever in the United States-of the Beatrice 6.
On February 5, 1985, one of the coldest nights on record, Beatrice, Nebraska widow Helen Wilson was murdered inside her second-floor apartment. The news of six arrests was absolutely stunning to the locals in this easy-going,...
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One morning in July 1974, Anita Andrews, the owner and bartender at Fagiani's Cocktail Lounge in Napa, California, was found dead in her bar-raped, beaten, and stabbed to death in a bloody frenzy.
Meanwhile a month after Anita's murder, young Michele Wallace, was driving down a road in the mountains near Crested Butte, Colorado, when she gave two stranded motorists, including a man named Roy, a ride. She was never seen alive again.
Fourteen years...
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The true crime author of The Bundy Murders provides an in-depth look at the notorious serial killer and his victims through revealing new interviews.
Though the true number of his victims may never be known, Ted Bundy took the lives of at least thirty young women and girls across the United States. He often targeted college students, leaving a trail of devastation from the University of Washington in the Pacific Northwest all the way to Florida State...
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